Accession number
PML 145600
Creator
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Published
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved title pages.
Illustrated with 70 copper engravings, including frontispiece in vol. 2, engraved t.p.'s with vignettes, and 67 plates, 12 of which are engraved by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger, P. Audinet, Cook, Lovegrove, Manzell, and Wilson. The designs were adapted from those of W. Kent, J. Wootton or Gravelot in earlier editions. Cf. Bentley.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Vol. 1: [2], xi, 225 p., [51] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, 187, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
Illustrated with 70 copper engravings, including frontispiece in vol. 2, engraved t.p.'s with vignettes, and 67 plates, 12 of which are engraved by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger, P. Audinet, Cook, Lovegrove, Manzell, and Wilson. The designs were adapted from those of W. Kent, J. Wootton or Gravelot in earlier editions. Cf. Bentley.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Vol. 1: [2], xi, 225 p., [51] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, 187, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
Description
2 v. in 1 : ill. (engraving) ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Russia tooled in gilt.
Classification
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